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Place. good news, they haven't gone up since we started covering this early this morning. a very fluid situation. wolf, just like we saw in boston, a horrible set of circumstances we are facing, a small up community pulled together themselves they became as citizens first responders and helped make this situation less tragic, but still going on, wolf. >> still going on. a lot of heroes out in west, texas, also a heroes here in boston. chris, stand by for a moment. we're also learning that several firefighters are still missing after the blast at the federal lieser plant in west, texas, not far...

Steady rain coming down. temperatures dropped about 15, 20 degrees. here's the good news. overhearing froms a shul offici rain will help wash, clean the area of particles. that will help if there is any toxic fumes in the stid and it will help extinguish the embers and fire that is still burning. 12 hours after the blast. the bad side is, of course, it's going the hamper and hinder the search and rescue effort which the mayor says is still ongoing at this hour and the big thing is going to be waiting for daylight because they expect to learn a lot, both about what the impact has been and count...

News out of west, texas, community. about 2,600 people. a big explosion last night. it was a fertilizer plant that went up. what happened was they got a call to the plant about 7:29 local time. fire fighters responded. 24 minutes later after they had done their best to get as many people out of the area as possible, there was a massive mushroom-sized explosion. at this point we just had a press briefing from one of the sergeants from waco. he said right now they can confirm between 5 and 15 dead, although according to "the dallas morning news," they worry that number could go into the dozens. ...

According to the state department. 8-year-old martin richard, the face of the tragedy, captured the hearts of so many people and kris krystle campbell. president obama will speak about the victims and the first responders there. we are expected to hear a strong message from him, a message of compassion. >> all right, pamela brown, thank you so much from the cathedral of the holy across. interfaith service will begin at 11:00. the president will be leaving washington shortly for the service. one of the events we're covering today. so much going on in the world. covering breaking news all mornin...

See some pea size hail, frequent cloud to ground lightning and heavy rainfall. forecast is for more than a quarter inch of rain. less than a half inch of rain, but behind it, you can see it here, there is some areas of rain behind it. so while to the -- well to the west of the line of storms. we could be dealing with several hours of rain. that will complicate things as far as clean-up efforts go for the city of west and for any fire fighting efforts that we're doing across that area. the forecast radar here is basically again for several hours of rain and again, expecting a wind shift to occu...